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Re: Bad sectors on Floppy Disks
« on: January 30, 2011, 05:48:42 PM »
I know newer versions of the Windows disk formatter will recognize bad sectors and dike them out of the filesystem, but I don't know if there's anything similar for the Amiga...
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Re: Bad sectors on Floppy Disks
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2011, 06:24:07 PM »
Yeah, it wouldn't likely work for writing sector-perfect disk images, but anything OFS-based could just have the files copied over to the new disk.
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